# The Portrait of a Lady

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- Book: [The Portrait of a Lady](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady) ([The Portrait of a Lady.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady.md))
- Authors: [Henry James](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-919-2
- Pages: 640
- Published: 2002-02-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of...